RAILWAY MANAGERS AND EMPLOYES. 775 



The notification of disablement, which precedes all applications for 

 temporary or permanent allowance, is made upou and in consonance 

 with forms furnished for that purpose ; when it is the duty of the head 

 of the department, or supervisor of division or section, under whom 

 the member serves, to certify whether the disablement was received in 

 the discharge of duty and in the company's service, and to forward a 

 certificate to that effect to the secretary of the association, accom- 

 panied by a similar certificate covering the clinical facts from the so- 

 ciety's surgeon called to attend the member. 



The managers, from time to time, adopt such measures to secure 

 the proper visitation of contributors on the allowance list as they 

 think proper, and no member refusing to submit to an examination by 

 such visitor is entitled to receive any benefits from the fund during 

 the continuance of such refusal. 



To constitute a lawful claim for accident indemnity, there must be : 



1. Exterior or patent evidence of injury, and satisfactory testimony 

 that it resulted from accident while in the discharge of duties assigned 

 the contributor by the company, and incapacitates him from earning a 

 livelihood. 



2. In case of death, that the injuries sustained by such accident 

 were the sole and direct cause of death ; or 



3. Not resulting from accidents while performing the company's 

 service, that it was not caused by injuries received while engaged in 

 unlawful enterprises or riots. The managers are the exclusive judges 

 as to whether the injuries have been so caused and received, and their 

 decision shall be final and conclusive. 



All legitimate claims for death-allowance are paid in full, irrespect- 

 ive of any previous payments which may have been made under the 

 head of temporary disability allowance, but the managers have power 

 to require such information and particulars as they deem necessary to 

 establish the validity of the claim of any person applying for allow- 

 ance. 



In urgent cases the managers have power to pay part of the death- 

 allowance within a shorter period than sixty days, but the whole is 

 always paid within that time. 



In the event of a contributor, who has been injured while in the 

 line of duty and in the company's service, resuming work and after- 

 ward dying from the effects of such injury, the fund is liable for the 

 payment of the accidental death allowance, according to the scale, 

 should death occur within a period of six months from the date of 

 injury ; but, after that interval no further liability attaches to the 

 fund with regard to the payment of the accidental death allowance. 

 Any contributor, who, by reason of continued sickness from natural 

 causes, or resulting from accidents incurred while not on duty, is un- 

 able to work, is entitled to death-allowance according to the scale and 

 provisions relating thereto ; if death occur no later than one month 



